You might be a child in the 70s if:

[311stylie]

You have pictures where your mom dressed you in bell bottoms as a child.

 

[jqavins]

74 series TTL logic (my first databook was TTL logic in 1972. I was 10.)

74LS series later in the decade.

40xx series CMOS logic from RCA (my dad worked at the Sarnoff labs) and COSMAC computers. Why RCA didn't make the 40xx series pin-for-pin compatible with the 74xx series, I'll never understand. Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.

 

[jqavins]

Has anyone mentioned it: the ENDLESS bicentennial hype. I woke up at summer camp on the morning of the day and said "Oh, thank god it's over"; one of the other kids called me a communist.

 

[OverTheTop]

We still buy components from Sarnoff (its evolution anyway) today.

 

[Rob Campbell]

You have pictures where your mom dressed you in bell bottoms as a child.

And in the 80's, you burned them!

 

[Kabulrocks]

Kodachrome. I miss that film.

 

[darrenf]

That's a 56k handshake. That didn't come about to well into the 90s. Hell, 2400 baud wasn't really available till about 1984.

 

[jqavins]

That's a 56k handshake. That didn't come about to well into the 90s. Hell, 2400 baud wasn't really available till about 1984.

And neither were consumer ISPs. BBSs, yes, but not internet.

Hats off for knowing (remembering) how to identify a given rate handshake by the sound.

 

[jsdemar]

40xx series CMOS logic from RCA (my dad worked at the Sarnoff labs) and COSMAC computers. Why RCA didn't make the 40xx series pin-for-pin compatible with the 74xx series, I'll never understand. Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.

Logic levels and drive specs weren’t compatible between cmos 4000 and 7400 series. People like to have crisp 1’s and 0’s. To make that early generation of cmos compatible would have ruined its efficiency. (Former IC designer one year after the decade of this thread topic).

 

[cerving]

40xx series CMOS logic from RCA (my dad worked at the Sarnoff labs) and COSMAC computers. Why RCA didn't make the 40xx series pin-for-pin compatible with the 74xx series, I'll never understand. Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.

4000 CMOS is alive and kicking... there's a 4011in the push button switch circuitry of the Eggtimer EZ-DD altimeter that we just released. And it's a DIP-14 part, too.

 

[John Kemker]

Yeah, my dad had a Montgomery Ward mower with that impulse starter. Pretty sure my right arm got a lot stronger than my left one because of it...

And that's your story and you're sticking by it. LOL

 

[John Kemker]

Kodachrome. I miss that film.

Ektachrome was da bomb! Better color saturation all around, though leaned towards the blue end of the spectrum.

 

[kuririn]

You're a child of the 70s if you know what "what's your 20?" means on the CB radio.
And you memorized all the 10 codes.
And you monitored channel 9.
Or so I heard.

 

[prfesser]

Doggonit, STOP triggering old memories!!!

• Bub's Daddy bubblegum was one of the first of the slightly-softer ones. Bazooka was like a rock.
• Whacky Packages stickers, five per pack, plus a stick of terrible liver-eating stomach-bloating stays-in-your-system-for-seven-years pink gum.
• Smoking tobacco-containing products------ under the bridge/in the boy's room/back of the school or the 7-11/parking lot of Ritchey's Dairy/select your place. (Certainly happened in the 50s and later).

 

[cls]

Later supplanted by the 54xx series CMOS, which is backward compatible with the 74s.

Nope, 54xx were "military" temperature range 74xx

 

[kuririn]

Blacklight posters.
Strawberry incense.
Rolling paper to make your own "cigarettes".
(Wink, wink).

 

[MarsLander]

M80s and Cherry Bombs.

 

[Hobie1dog]

Big silver faced receivers and bookshelf speakers.

 

[kuririn]

Big silver faced receivers and bookshelf speakers.

Analog (knob) tuning, VU meters on tape decks.

 

[kuririn]

Dolby MP for the cinema, which later became Dolby Surround Sound for home stereo.

 

[Rob Campbell]

Kodachrome. I miss that film.

 

[jqavins]

Doggonit, STOP triggering old memories!!!

• Bub's Daddy bubblegum was one of the first of the slightly-softer ones. Bazooka was like a rock.
• Whacky Packages stickers, five per pack, plus a stick of terrible liver-eating stomach-bloating stays-in-your-system-for-seven-years pink gum.
• Smoking tobacco-containing products------ under the bridge/in the boy's room/back of the school or the 7-11/parking lot of Ritchey's Dairy/select your place. (Certainly happened in the 50s and later).

Saying the brand name "Hubba Bubba Bubble Gum" in ubby-dubby.

 

[Mugs914]

"Stackable" record changers...

 

[jsdemar]

Whacky Packages stickers, five per pack, plus a stick of terrible liver-eating stomach-bloating stays-in-your-system-for-seven-years pink gum.

I was thinking about those Wacky stickers the other day while reading this thread! Like many things mentioned here, they overlap into the 60's.

 

[Mugs914]

Bubble Yum... The first soft bubble gum I remember. It swept through Lincoln Junior High like a prairie fire, as did the Wacky Package stickers.

 

[darrenf]

And neither were consumer ISPs. BBSs, yes, but not internet.

Hats off for knowing (remembering) how to identify a given rate handshake by the sound.

Those sounds are burned into my brain. At the age now where I sometimes can't remember what I did a few days ago, but things like that from my youth will always stay with me.

 

[jqavins]

The Beatles had a hit record on the charts six years after they broke up. (And that's been beaten since.)

 

[Fishhead]

Yeah, I might.

 

[tsmmiller]

I didn’t pay much attention to that (The Bicentinial) other than when the Freedom Train came through town I made sure to spend as much time as I could examining and photographing SP 4449.

 

[tsmmiller]

You purchased and read cover to cover Xaviera Hollander “The Happy Hooker”